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Show PMI1G LABOR FOR FARMS Of IMS OF CO-OPERATIO! A further development of the cooperative co-operative labor plan as considered by tho county farm bureau was discussed yesterday by D. D. McKay, president of the state and the Weber county farm bureaus. According to Mr. McKay, Mc-Kay, whenever a farmer has a few minutes to spare from his own farm, or a team which" can be used, he should hire himself and his team out to his neighbor who needs temporary assistance. In speaking of tho plah he said: "It is a well known fact that almost every farmer has from one to several days during the month that he and his teams are either totally Idlo or aro engaged at unimportant tasks that can wait. The co-operative labor plan, therefore, Is to havo every farmer pledge himself, his men and teams on such days to the servico of Uncle Sam, by way of planting or harvesting crops on his neighbor's farm, at a fixed and uniform wage. "I believe that tho idle days on the farms of this state will average at least two per month. To save these n u uu.)o iui prouueuve agriculture or to put them to better use, which is the same thing, on the 25,000 farms of this state is the equivalent of placing plac-ing at least 3,000 men on tho farms. "This is more than havo been taken from the farms into Uie federal service. ser-vice. A benefit of almost equal proportions pro-portions can be obtaned indirectly by tho adoption of this plan. Last year every farmer bid indirectly against his neighbor for the little transient labor I thero was. and Uie results wore that wages wero advanced to a ridiculously high levol. Nor was this the worst feature. With wages changing so rapidly, rap-idly, especially during tho beet and potato harvesting time, men refused to work today preferring to wait for tho advance in wage which they knew tomorrow would bring. Tomorrow they wero of tho same opinion. The clock ticked away a good portion of tho harvest season before some made up their minds to work at all. "If this plan is adopted this will all bo changed.. Under this plan a conference would decide upon tho wages that each farmer should pay to his neighbor, which would also be the wage that ho received. "Wages would then become 'standardized 'stand-ardized by common consent, and the transient help would know what tho rato of pay was, and that it was tho samo in every place in the state. Thero would be no bidding against each other, and there would be no object in transient help moving about from place to place thus wasting valuable time, or in waiting for wages to raise." nn 1 |